This guy has been cartooning for longer than most of Reddit has been alive, and he's very much into nerd culture and specifically superhero comics/toys/movies. He does a lot of commentary on those things.

There's also this Jimquisition, which does a pretty good job of discussing the hypersexualization of women vs the muscly men syndrome of mainstream video games, but can apply more generally to most other forms of media.

This guy has been cartooning for longer than most of Reddit has been alive, and he's very much into nerd culture and specifically superhero comics/toys/movies. He does a lot of commentary on those things.

So what? Being a cartoonist for a long time makes you an expert on sexuality?

And seriously, to argue that being muscular isn't considered desirable by men because women find it attractive, you link to men? You could at least link to women as I am more likely to take their personal anecdotes on this topic more seriously.

Being a male feminists doesn't suddenly give you more insight into female sexuality than any other male. My point was that these guys don't have any formal qualifications in this area so their opinion is worth no more than anyone else's, and as they aren't women they can't even claim authority based on personal experience.

1) Feminist theory and criticism need not be based on personal experience. Nor must they be based on an academic background, or else very many feminist theorists wouldn't be considered valid. Part of feminism is the emphasis on learned experience and the valuation of different points of view.

2) I am a woman and I agree with both of those critics, as do many other women.

You're invalidating your own argument (that only women can have opinions on women?) by refusing to listen to a feminist woman.

Additionally, you're just so wrong. Plenty of feminist theorists are considered valid regardless of whether or not they've been formally educated in feminist theory. Perhaps one of the most kickass feminist theorists, bell hooks, has no degrees in feminist studies at all but is pretty important and famous within the feminist sphere of academia.